Imagining Earth : concepts of wholeness in cultural constructions of our home planet /

While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, "Earth" itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Nitzke, Solvejg (Autor, Editor ), Pethes, Nicolas (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017]
Colección:Culture & theory.
Temas:
Culture > Philosophy.
Cultural studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Culture > Philosophy
Culture
Ecology
Literature
Mythology
Nature
Religion
Erde.
Ganzheit
Earth (Planet) > Philosophy.
Terre > Philosophie.
Earth (Planet)
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Culture.
Earth.
Ecology.
General Literature Studies.
Home Planet.
Literature.
Media.
Mythology.
Nature.
Religion.
Utopia.
Online-Ressource.
Littérature.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Visions of the "Blue Marble": technology, philosophy, fiction / Solvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes
  • Mathematical images of planet earth / Gabriele Gramelsberger
  • Google Earth: satellite images and the appropriation of the divine perspective / Angela Krewani
  • Mediating Gaia: literature, space, and cybernetics in the dissemination of Gaia discourse / Bruce Clarke
  • Why ecological awareness is loopy / Timothy Morton
  • "Again, the Earth (which ever I held in mine eye) did as it were mask it selfe with a kind of brightness like another Moone.": inventing "Blue Marble" in 17th century literature and astronomy / Hania Siebenpfeiffer
  • "earth's slow turning into the dark": global networks of decay in W.G. Sebalds The Rings of Saturn / Nicholas Pethes
  • A whole earth movement: planetary mediation in Dietmar Dath's The Abolition of Species / Solvejg Nitzke.

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